Archeologists in the Gulf of Khambhat, also known as Gulf of Cambay, have discovered the remains of a submerged city believed to be oldest on the subcontinent, and perhaps much older than even the Mesopotamian civilizations.
“It was generally believed that well organized civilizations could not have existed prior to 5500 BP,” writes geologist Badrinaryan Badrinaryan with India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology. “Many were reluctant to accept that the flood myths mentioned in many ancient religious writings. The recent discovery made in the Gulf of Cambay, India, shocked many and made some to sit up and watch with interest. It clearly established the existence of an ancient civilization that was submerged in the sea.”
Badrinaryan says findings from the discovery suggest a civilization was flourishing in the Cambay area from three thousand to thirteen thousand years ago. Until recently, the consensus among archeologists is that well organized civilizations could not have existed prior to 5,500 years ago.
“Based on the survey data utilizing the latest high-tech methods, including side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiling, and multi beam echo sounding, the report makes a case that threatens to overthrow many conventional assumptions about the origins of civilization,” writes J. Douglas Kenyon in Ghosts of Atlantis.
Kenyon links the discovery in the Gulf of Cambay to the myth of a lost fountainhead of civilization, Atlantis, whose memory lies deep in our collective subconscious.
“Hard proof that advanced prediluvian civilization actually existed could produce an intellectual tsunami capable of exposing many issues in the current academic paradigm.”
